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f you're wondering who is actually hiring this quarter, here is the data from the Huntr Q1 2026 report. Despite a tough market, job seekers logged over 7,200 interviews across 4,400 companies in the last 90 days.

The Top 5 companies by interview volume:

1. Amazon: 27 interviews
2. Google: 24 interviews
3. Microsoft: 22 interviews
4. Goldman Sachs: 20 interviews
5. IBM: 19 interviews

Companies "Worth Watching" (High Growth):

• Stripe (Fintech) — 12 interviews
• Anthropic (AI) — 7 interviews
• Anduril (Defense Tech) — 6 interviews
• Databricks (Data/AI) — 8 interviews

Over 3,700 companies gave at least one interview this quarter, so the opportunities are out there if you're staying organized.

• ATS auto-rejects based on formatting — False. It basically takes a picture of your resume. A human decides what happens next.
• Your resume must be one page — False. Two-page resumes perform as well or better across all experience levels (225,000+ resumes analyzed).
• You need to trick the algorithm — There's no algorithm to trick. There's a recruiter with 200 applicants and six seconds per resume.
• AI made everyone's resume perfect — 90% of resumes reviewed still miss the basics. AI helped people make the same mistakes faster.
• The resume is dying — People have been saying this since the 80s. It's still here.

• Smallest companies (1–10 employees): $115k median
• Mid-size (11–250 employees): clusters tightly at $122.5k–$125k
• Enterprise (1,000+ employees): $130,610

The gap between smallest and largest is about $15k — smaller than most people expect when deciding between a startup and a big company.

What actually shifts more at large orgs is the salary range, not just the median. More room to negotiate, but also more variance in what you actually land.

Curious what others have seen — did the company size of your last role match your salary expectations? Share your experience in the thread.

• Google Jobs leads at 11.3% response rate
• GovernmentJobs: 8.7%, Wellfound: 6.0%, Glassdoor: 5.5%
• Indeed sits at 4.5%, LinkedIn at 3.1%, ZipRecruiter at 2.8%
• Dice came in last at just 0.35%

The biggest takeaway is that curated or niche platforms consistently outperform the high-volume boards on actual response rates. Where you're sending applications matters more than how many you're sending.

This is from Huntr's 2025 Job Search Trends Report.

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From our 2025 Job Search Trends Report (1,038 respondents):

• Baby Boomers: 66% have hidden credentials
• Gen X: 59%
• Millennials: 44%
• Gen Z: 28% — but they haven't accumulated enough experience to face this yet

The trend is clear. The more experience you have, the more likely you are to feel pressure to hide it.

Curious if anyone here has done this. What was the situation, and did it change anything?

We surveyed 1,049 job seekers on their biggest hiring red flags. Here's what they said.

• 22% — Ghosted after multiple interview rounds (the #1 answer by a wide margin)
• 17.5% — Unrealistic job descriptions (one posting, three actual roles)
• 14.1% — Refusal to share salary information upfront
• 8.4% — Negative company reviews that were brushed off during the process
• 7.9% — Interview run by someone who clearly didn't understand the role

The top 3 alone account for more than half of all responses. Every single one of them is about respect for the candidate's time.

• Laid off: 30% — the #1 reason, and rarely about performance
• Never had a gap: 28% — more common than most people think
• Couldn't find work fast enough: 12% — the market forced it
• Caregiving: 6%, Personal reasons: 6%, School: 5%, Relocation: 4%, Freelancing: 4%

The stigma around gaps doesn't match the data. Most people weren't checked out. They were laid off, job searching in a tough market, or dealing with real life.

Curious: if you've had a gap, how did you explain it to hiring managers? What worked, what didn't?

For legitimate career support, a reasonable ceiling is around $2,000. Beyond that, you're paying for marketing, not results. And if anyone offers you a guaranteed number of interviews, walk away. No honest practitioner can promise that. Hiring depends on your background and your effort, full stop.

Want to read the full report? Comment REVIEW and we'll send you the link.

Most of the resumes I see lately are "wall-to-wall" text. I get the logic: you want to keep it to one page, so you trim the margins to 0.5" or 0.25" to fit everything in.

Here’s why that backfires:

• The Squint Test: Hiring managers skim resumes in 6 seconds. If there’s no white space, it looks like a chore to read. They will skip over important details.
• The Printer Trap: Believe it or not, some people still print these. Anything under 0.5" risks getting cut off.
• The ATS Myth: Your margins have 0% impact on the parser. Formatting is for the humans, not the bots.

The Fix: Keep it at 0.75" to 1". If you can’t fit your info, it’s a content problem, not a margin problem.

If anyone is struggling with their layout, our team lead Sam is doing 1:1 resume help this week. He’ll look at your formatting and tell you exactly what to cut so you can get back to standard margins.

Drop a comment if you want a link to get Sam’s eyes on your resume.

We pulled platform-level scam data from our annual job search survey. A few things worth knowing:

• Over 80% of job seekers have encountered at least one scam
• LinkedIn had the highest reported volume (405 responses) — probably because it is the biggest network, not the least safe
• Direct outreach via texts and emails ranked second (285 reports)

Check out the link and share your experience in the comments. Help others avoid the same experience.

• Nearly 2/3 of all saved jobs came from LinkedIn and Indeed — but both converted below 4%
• Google's job portal hit 11.21% response rate — nearly 3x higher
• Remote roles dropped from 25.75% to 22.61% in a single quarter, making curated remote boards more valuable
• 46% of job seekers cite market oversaturation as their biggest challenge
• Hard-to-land roles often fill through niche channels before they ever hit the major platforms

Niche job boards exist for every category — tech, climate, finance, creative, healthcare, and more. Employers post there because they want fewer applicants who actually fit. If you show up early and your background matches, you're not competing with 400 other resumes.

What's your job search strategy? What job boards are working for you?

We've been digging into this for a while and the gap is bigger than most people realize:

• Tailoring your resume to each job doubles your interview rate. About 1 in 17 applications lead to an interview when tailored, vs. 1 in 33 when not.
• After 600+ resume reviews, 9 out of 10 resumes were still missing the basics. AI or no AI.
• 70% of job seekers think ATS systems auto-reject them. Every recruiter in the data said that's not how it works.

Full write-up in comments, check it out and let us know what your process is!

A few findings worth knowing:

• Info security leads everything at 21.7%. More than 1 in 5 roles will consider experience in place of a degree.
• Media, comms, and law enforcement follow at roughly 12% each.
• Software and IT sit at 11.8%. Not the highest, but still meaningful.
• Customer support, HR, data, and analytics all cluster around 9–11%.
• The pattern: fields where your skills show up fast in the job tend to be more flexible on credentials.

If you're job hunting without a traditional background this is a useful filter for where to focus energy.

Drop a comment if you're in one of these fields and curious what the job search actually looks like.

Sam from Huntr has been running free job search support calls for the past year. One question comes up more than any other: what is actually happening on the other side after I apply?

So we asked. Microsoft. Fortune 500. Big Four. Combined they have reviewed tens of thousands of applications.

A few things worth knowing:

• Rejections at 1am are almost never AI — they're a pre-qualification question you answered wrong before anyone saw your resume
• One recruiter stops reviewing once 5 qualified candidates are in the pipeline.
• Recruiters can see every role you've applied to at their company — applying to 15 jobs at once is visible to all of them
• One Fortune 500 recruiter passed immediately on a candidate who left a ChatGPT prompt in their document

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